Dave Amundrud 🇨🇦

Enthusiastic about Swimming, Indoor Rowing, and Good Food & Good Wine, #KeepMovingForLife 🇨🇦

#UltraSwimmer 🏊‍♂️

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It’s been an especially rough few days for the longterm legitimacy of the FIFA Peace Prize.

[Jesus Chrysler @JesusChryslerII]

Poor little boy

[Dave Amundrud 🇨🇦 @daveamun]

This will be the first time in a long time that I will want to hear Jesse Brown speak

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

“Canadaland Inc. and its founder Jesse Brown will pay a total of $885,000 in damages and costs to Theresa Kielburger [...] to settle her defamation lawsuit. [...] Under the settlement terms, Mr. Brown appeared in open court and read a full retraction and apology aloud. The full apology must be posted prominently and permanently on the Canadaland website and across every social media and podcast platform where the episode appears.”

https://t.co/euXdR5m3dc

[Michael Mahoney @MikeTheNavyGuy1]

Destroyed a charity for clicks.

[Univrsle @univrsle]

A deserved day for Canadaland.

The fact is that a lot of media got a lot of traction making the Kielbergers/WE political canon fodder....and at the end of the day, for all the promises of 'scandal' it was all smoke and theatre goaded on by the Conservatives and based on nothing

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

Gianni Infantino knocked down all the reporting over visa concerns for this World Cup in August 2025: “I think it’s important to clarify this. There is a lot of misconception out there. Everyone will be welcome in Canada, Mexico and the United States for the FIFA World Cup next year.

“There is a process to go through to get visas and so on. This process will be smooth…

“We want to unite the world and we will unite the world next year. The world needs occasions of unity, of bringing teams together, of bringing people together, of bringing fans together... So again everyone will be welcome, be positive and you will see it will be a great, great celebration of the greatest FIFA World Cup ever.”

No, again we are just meant to look the other way and allow this thing we love so much, that we want to enjoy, that we can map our whole lives around, to be used and abused.

Again we are told about unity and inclusion when division, disparity and denial is the reality.

It is a great, great celebration of getting more money whatever it takes, no matter who has to pay the price. The greatest showpiece of allowing - unopposed! - the man who is meant to protect and grow the people’s game into playing celebrity, massaging his own ego and that of heads of state.

The biggest, most expensive, least accessible World Cup ever. The thing we love and all the beautiful pieces of it we’ve lost.

[Ismail Osman ⚖️🕊️ @osmando]

What a prediction. embarrassing moment.

[𝑶𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝑫𝒂 𝑳𝒂𝒈𝒆 @odalage]

Dans un monde idéal, tous les arbitres de la Coupe du monde auraient démissionné en solidarité avec leur collègue somalien.

[The Footy Feed @TheFootyFeed]

Ian Wright is an absolute hero for saying how we all feel about this World Cup…

“I've just read that the Somalian referee has been denied entry. Every few hours it's another story, another story about fans denied, players denied, officials denied, journalists denied, now refs," Wright said.

"You know something I'm laughing but it's not funny, it's actually not funny and something has to be said.

"The expensive tickets, the most expensive tickets ever, expensive accommodation, transport through the roof. It has to be said.

"Is this how the hosts behave really for the greatest game, the greatest tournament in the world, is this how the hosts behave?

"Are we not hearing more? Are we seeing how Qatar got dragged, are we not hearing more? Is this the spirit of football, really?

"You know who I feel for? I feel for the American fans who are desperate for this, American soccer fans who are desperate for this, how embarrassed they must be. How embarrassing for them this must be.

"This is the World Cup, this is a World Cup of chaos. Whoever wins this World Cup is going to have to go through some serious chaos to get this done.

"I hope we can do it, but something has to be said now. This is the World Cup."

[Alex Tiffin @RespectIsVital]

South Africa, Germany and other recent #WorldCup hosts were forced by FIFA to promise all accredited officials, players and staff would be guaranteed visas and minimal immigration interference for the tournament duration.

Why is the United States exempt from that @FIFAcom?

[Shayna @shaynagoldman_]

Babcock's wrongdoings may not be criminal, but just going to stress this same point over and over again: it is a privilege to work in the NHL. There are only 32 head coaching positions and you have to earn that, both on and off the ice.

[Hussain Shiyam 🇵🇸❓🎈 @ShiyamHussain]

This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.

[Pete Blackburn @PeteBlackburn]

With essentially a one-year McDavid window, the Oilers hiring a guy who hasn't coached an NHL game in 7 years and got fired from his last job before even stepping behind the bench would legitimately be one of the most insane management decisions of all time

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

If you're a hockey team that's looking for to bring in a head coach, you know you've found the right guy if you hafta ask the players' union to see if you're even allowed to hire him.

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

BREAKING:

Water not Coal (aka Corb Lund's petition) says it has reached the signatures required under the citizen intiative act.

If signatures are counted and approved, it would theoretically lead to an 11th referendum question in Alberta this fall.

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

There's no brand like Canada's brand.

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

Alberta is at record oil production and the Canada-Alberta MOU brings people together on a common path for growth and environmental action.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Angus: We have seen an explosion of online foreign actors spreading disinformation and hate about Canada and Alberta. This pattern of fake pages and offshore bot farms to stoke division is right out of the Brexit playbook.

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

SHOCKING:
Turns out the loudest voices pushing Alberta separatism don't even live in Alberta... or Canada. 😂🇨🇦
https://t.co/lk8PLqF0Ro